Foreword / Robert C. Ritchie -- Introduction: World War II in the Golden State / Roger W. Lotchin -- Daily life in wartime California / Arthur Verge -- The way we thought we were: images in World War II films / Linda Harris Mehr -- Music goes to war: California, 1940-45 / Ronald D. Cohen -- New Deal and wartime origins of San Francisco's postwar political culture: the case of growth politics and policy / William Issel -- California in the Second World War: an analysis of defense spending / Paul Rhode -- Public oil, private oil: the Tidelands oil controversy, World War II, and control of the environment / Sarah S. Elkind -- Ethnics at war: Italian Americans in California during World War II / Gary Mormino and George E. Pozzetta -- War comes to Chinatown: social transformation and the Chinese of California / K. Scott Wong -- "Brothers under the skin"?: African Americans, Mexican Americans, and World War II in California / Kevin Allen Leonard -- Partisans in overalls: new perspectives on women and politics in wartime California / Jacqueline R. Braitman
